Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Drama, Crime | 120min | TV Movie 3 March 2004
6.4


Director: Vondie Curtis-HallWriter: J.T. AllenStars: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson YoungSummary: Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison, California; he was declared dead on December 13, 2005 at 12:35 a.m. PST (08:35 UTC). Williams is the 12th person to be executed by California since it reinstated the death penalty in 1977.
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